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Hoo hoo hoo, I can’t wait for Lego Star Wars III (warning: hideous, annoying website). Despite the quite remarkably boring opening to the 360 demo that I didn’t bother playing past. Also, hello former writer for PC Gamer who makes the Lego Star Wars games – how about a PC demo? Eh? Anyway, there’s a new CGI trailer/cutscene for it out of GDC and it made me laugh. Hence: post.

But then it always makes me laugh when people’s arms fall off. The game is out on the 22nd March. It’d better be good, or I’ll have wasted my time looking forward to it.

Question: Which of these games should my buddy and I pick up if we want to start with the Lego games? There are a ton of them right now, some of ‘em are reputed to be pretty mediocre. They all support online co-op, right? Batman, Indy, Star Wars, doesn’t matter, main issue would be a fun(ny) game.

If you go for Star Wars get the complete edition. Not only does that buff the first trilogy up to the standards of the second trilogy game but it adds a bunch of new stuff, too. And you can play as Indy!

@Pantsman, point taken, but there’s nothing “in-game” about this trailer as well. I’m still trying to feel excited about TOR, because it’s star wars and with a budget and dev-time like that they just can not fail. Because if they do, they will shatter my capitalistic believe that Money = 1 / Problems, and what else is there to live for in this world besides maximum moolah?

all next gen LSW cutscenes are performed realtime ‘in-game’ using the same assets, environment assets, rendering techniques as the normal game.
its not just a video playback of unrelated stuff with a fancy renderer a’la Blur studios.

What I meant is that both this and the TOR “cinematic trailers” are non-interactive, mostly unrelated to story, and released as PR pre release. And in a trailer vs. trailer contest, IMO TOR is looking better.

But I acknowledge that maybe the intended OP-message was “This looks way more fun and fresh than TOR’s gritty realisticnessity”, so I shall drop this subject now. The LSW games are fun, their art style is nice (although I don’t dig the increased “realism” in shading), TOR has insane production values (in cutscenes) but looks like KOTOR v2.5 otherwise.

I think the main thing is that there’s a delineation between gameplay trailers and cinematic trailers, and much as I want to be excited about TOR and much as I’ve enjoyed the cinematic trailers, the gameplay trailers have been pretty lacklustre and uninspiring.